Python DevCenter: Inside Mitch Kapor's World

"SH: So, when you came to start Lotus, did you do so with the specific intention of developing 1-2-3, or was 1-2-3 an accident?

"MK: From 1978 when I bought my Apple II, for the next four years I just threw myself into PCs, and did lots of things--I had a little consulting practice, I formed an Apple users group in the New England area which was, of course, the first one on the East Coast, and I started a tiny cottage software business doing a statistics and graphics package for the Apple II. I went to business school for a little while, and I did a number of other things..."

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